Writing in Transit with Readings

Ideal for both first-year composition and interdisciplinary writing courses, Writing in Transit offers a two-tiered approach to multidisciplinary writing. Author Denise Comer presents strategies and instruction for navigating the purposes for writing through writing transfer, which encourages students to reflect on what they learn in one context about writing, and about themselves as learners and writers, and then apply, extend, reject, or otherwise modify this knowledge for other disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary contexts. Writing in Transit teaches students how to build practical bridges between disciplines’ discourse conventions by learning about the research and writing process. Textual features of Writing in Transit: Integrates a transfer-based approach to academic writing through multidisciplinary inquiry Approaches writing with a multimodal framework, addressing academic writing in print, visual, digital, and oral formats Provides a compelling range of highly interactive disciplinary-based assignments, with a sequenced spectrum of assignment options Provides engaging readings across disciplines centered on four broad themes with contemporary relevance: travel and adventure; news and information; disaster; and gaming Presents reflections about writing from people of all ages, offering glimpses of writing through an inclusive and international perspective Chapter 1: Writing Transfer Chapter 2: Research and Writing as a Process Chapter 3: Posing Meaningful Questions Chapter 4: Reading Chapter 5: Summary Chapter 6: Synthesis Chapter 7: Analysis Chapter 8: Framing Arguments Chapter 9: Constructing Chapter 10: Designing Arguments: Formats and Modalities Chapter 11: Choosing and Integrating Evidence: Quotes, Paraphrases, Visual Materials, and Data Chapter 12: Citing Resources